GUESS WHO'S.......

6 MONTHS OLD!! Can you believe it? This kid is already 6 months old. How time has flown by. He is such a joy in our family. I will admit he gave us a rough time the first 4 months with his crying all the time, but we finally figured out he's got acid reflux so he's on some medicine for that and now he's the best baby in the world!! Oh I just love having a little boy around. I can't wait to see how he grows.

We took him to the Dr yesterday and he is 16.6 pounds and 29 inches long. He is perfectly healthy and cute as can be of course. He loves to roll around, spit rasberries, and smile at the ladies. He smiles at anyone really, but mostly the ladies. He's a ladies man. He is almost sitting up now, and just got 2 teeth last week. He loves his food, except for peas.... he hates peas, he gags on those. Just like his mommy. He laughs at Brystal who plays peekaboo with him in the car. He loves having her around.

And then there is Brystal....Brystal, Brystal, Brystal. What can I say, she's 2. She is giving us a run for our money these days. Rule #1 Don't ever pass Brystal up on the stairs, you muct be right next to her, or behind her, or she will flip out. Rule #2 Don't leave a room without telling her that you are leaving or she will flip out. Rule #3 Don't run upstairs to grab something without inviting Brystal to come along, or she will flip out.These are just a couple of rules that go on at our house. Does anyone else have kids who won't let them go anywhere without them? What is up with that? Besides that and the normal 2 year old tantrums, Brystal is such a joy to have around and is learning so much. She loves to sing and dance, and she is starting to think of funny things to say. She loves her little brother, and likes to tell random people that this is her brother. She also likes to tell random people hi. Gotta keep an eye on this one, she is a bit too friendly sometimes. She loves to cuddle, especially with her daddy of course. I think her new favorite food is Mackie and Cheese as she calls it, she ate about 4 bowls of it today.

Things are pretty busy around here doing nothing with these 2. Crazy but fun. I love them both, and love that they love eachother I'm excited to see how their relationship grows together as the years go by. I sometimes look at them and can't believe they are mine!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY 2010

Valentines day was great this year with Nate planning a big day and night for us. He managed to drag in a few of our friends to play along. First the guys let all of us ladies go out to the spa and get facials, then go shopping and out to lunch. When I got home he told me to grab my "going out to a nice place" clothes and I went to my friend Michelle's house where we were told to "get ready". Then we left the 2 babysitters with all 6 of our kids and went to our house. When we walked in the guys had decorated the whole place with crate paper and twinkling lights all the way up to the ceiling, and they MADE US DINNER! What did we ever do to deserve all this besides take care of their children and clean their house and dishes, and clothes?

Here is everyone eating dinner, I kept asking the girls who's table cloth that was, because I had never seen it before. Come to find out, it is one of our old sheets. Nice. Gotta give Nate a little credit here, he did think of everything else. He even had little dinner conversation starters like where did we all meet. It was fun to hear everyone's story.

Once again a really bad picture of both of us, but here we are, in love on Valentines day.

After dinner the fun began with a dance party. No I'm not kidding, we really had a dance party. Nate whipped up some old music from high school that we all danced to.

It was awsome! Then we went out and got some desert and visited with everyone. It was so fun to pretend like we were going to the prom again and get all dressed up. I can't believe Nate thought up of all this himself. He is such a great husband, and a really great Valentine. The babysitter mentioned that she never wanted to have 6 kids under the age of 4.

YOUNG WOMENS REMODEL

As some of you know, I'm working in the Young Women's in church now which of course I LOVE! And they decided that our room needed a little bit of an update, or in this case, it just needed anything. They put me in charge of all the decorating for this room, which I used alot of my vinyl to do and pictures. Here is a few before and after shots. I wish I could have gotten more, but I put alot of work into this and I think it turned out pretty good.

Side A of the room. As you can see, not one single picture hanging up, not even one!

Side B, once again... nothing!! Can you believe this place? Nothing!

On Side A of the room, I put the them for the year along with all of the Young Women values and their colors beneath it. Along the other wall which I did not take any pictures of, I made a frame for each of the 3 rooms labeled with Beehives, Mia Maids and Laurels. Which was so cute.

Here is Side B, we moved the piano to this side of the room. Notice that we also made curtains for the windows. This place really needed some work so we went all out. I made the quote, "We are Daughters of our Heavenly Father who loves us, and we love him." on this wall here, with the theme, and torch and the picture of Christ with the girl in the red dress. So when we come to YW now, we face our chairs to this wall so that we can see this beautiful arrangement. It makes the room so much more uplifting to be in now, and the girls really loved it. Anyways, just the latest of some of my creations.

ME AND MY LITTLE MAN

I just can't get over how much I love this little guy. I think he is just reaching an age where everything he does is so fun! Plus he is freaking adorable!!!! He is 5 months old now if you can believe it and he is the apple of my eye right now.

Go Aggies!!!! Who wouldn't want to squeeze the guts out of this little guy!

Hello miniature Nathan... This is just half the reason why I love him so much. Wink wink.

Boy is he going to be quite the ladies man someday. He's already got that charm in his eyes. Just like his Daddy, hey wait a minute, that must be what attracted me to him so fast. This kid is in trouble.

We came home from Utah and he was freakishly too big for his swing, so we graduated up to the jumparoo. Here he is trying it out for the first time. He loves it now!

And of course he is my little cuddle buddy. I just love cuddling with a sleeping baby.